Oslo, Dec, 24.
Twenty-eight seamen met their death when two Swedish ships, the Mars and the Carl Henkel, struck mines in the North Sea on Thursday morning when on their way from England to Sweden with cargoes of coal, Eight survivors, one from the Mars and seven from the Carl Henkel, were landed at Christiansand yesterday evening, Two of them ' were immediately rushed to hospital owing to serious injuries, The Mars first struck a mine and the Carl Henkel picked up the survivors. One hour later, the latter also hit a mine. There was no time io launch the lifeboats and the vivors drifted on a raft until pic up by a Norwegian freighter—Ha
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